Last year, xenu asked <http://markmail.org/message/v2f3jiwlo3fn67ky>:
> I was wondering about the status of the :win32 perlio layer. It's been marked as experimental for ages.
>
> What is preventing it from becoming non-experimental? What is not working/missing?
Great question, xenu, I wonder the same thing!
The archives suggest, to me, that this feature was perhaps begun by the late, great Nick Ing-Simmons pre-2006. It got some work about seven years ago. bulk88 was doing some things with it, that petered out. In 2020, bulk88 said, "I'm not sure why it's around."
So: if this is a thing begun in over 15 years ago and abandoned several times, this suggests to me that either:
1. it's done enough
2. it's not worth finishing
…and my primitive search of the CPAN shows it's unused. But I'm not much of a Win32 programmer anymore, and possibly there is some value in place that has escaped me.
*???? Is there a reason not to remove the :win32 PerlIO experiment?*
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rjbs
> I was wondering about the status of the :win32 perlio layer. It's been marked as experimental for ages.
>
> What is preventing it from becoming non-experimental? What is not working/missing?
Great question, xenu, I wonder the same thing!
The archives suggest, to me, that this feature was perhaps begun by the late, great Nick Ing-Simmons pre-2006. It got some work about seven years ago. bulk88 was doing some things with it, that petered out. In 2020, bulk88 said, "I'm not sure why it's around."
So: if this is a thing begun in over 15 years ago and abandoned several times, this suggests to me that either:
1. it's done enough
2. it's not worth finishing
…and my primitive search of the CPAN shows it's unused. But I'm not much of a Win32 programmer anymore, and possibly there is some value in place that has escaped me.
*???? Is there a reason not to remove the :win32 PerlIO experiment?*
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rjbs